Happy Birthday Isaac!!!!

Here is our Happy Birthday Boy!!! : ) I can't believe that he is 6 years old!!! He is so excited that it is his Birthday today! He came up to me and said Mom look how tall I am!!! So cute! I just love it!!!! Here are some pictures of Isaac to celebrate the years of joy that he has brought into our family! : )

Kimmi said Bye

Today Kimmi said the actual words Bye as her brothers were off to school!!! She waved and said it at the same time! She truly amazes me! She understands so much! She has a hard time saying with words what she can understand but if you watch her, you know that she knows what you are saying or feeling. She picks up on how people are feeling all around her. Here is an example for you. Alma was upset and throwing a fit, so I put him up in his room till he could calm down. Kimmi looked for me and when she found me she said Mom, and then looked up toward Alma's room (where he was still throwing a fit) and she made her eyes big and then she hit the door, she ended up hitting the door twice. I looked at her and said yes Kimmi brother is upset ,but we don't hit, okay, we need to be soft. She then soften her facial expression and grabbed onto the door frame and lifted her leg behind her and pointed her toe! So cute!!!! She did that twice and then I asked her if she was trying to dance like a ballerina and she started doing her dance moves! So cute!!! She just makes me laugh! She has also taught me to be more gentle. She has a very sensitive soul and I want to keep it that way!!!! : ) We just love having her in our family!!!! The boys adore her including her Father!!!! It is sweet to see! : )

Isaac's Testimony of Prayer

Tonight has been a GREAT night!!! It has been freezing over here and the boys haven't been in school this whole week! We don't have a ton of snow on the ground but we did have a blizzard the last two days and the day before that we had a sheet of ice that covered everything! So needless to say since Sunday after church I have not left my house. I was totally planning on keeping it that way for as long as I could till we needed some necessities that couldn't wait! It was sunny and the roads were pretty much all cleared up so I said okay lets go. (I have to add that I would have gone earlier but I fell asleep! I never take naps but I did today, it must be having all three boys home for so long, it wears you out. hahahaha I Love it though) Anyway after my nap I looked at the time and it was about four something in the afternoon closer to five. So I loaded up all the chillins and saw my drive way but didn't think anything of it, other then that it is too cold to be shoveling snow! So we left went to the store the boys were so good!


Then they asked if we could go to big pig,( Famous Daves) They love going there. I was about to say no, lets eat at home but then it hit me it's Wednesday (normally I would be at young Womens but due to the weather it was canceled) So I thought how Isaac's 6th Birthday will be next Wednesday and I won't be able to do this next week, which I wasn't planning on doing anyway since I want to start cooking their favorite meal. Anyway on Wednesdays kids eat for 99 cents! So I said okay yes lets go eat at Big Pig because it is right behind Target! So we went there and had our dinner and I had Malachi go sneak and say that we are celebrating Isaac's Birthday with out Isaac knowing. hehehehehe Malachi totally told him though maybe two minutes after sitting back down! hahahaha He was too excited! It was funny. Anyway so every time Isaac saw the servers clapping their hands and coming out with a big bowl of ice cream he thought it was for him. I told him that it wasn't and that it was someone else's birthday. There were a lot of birthdays tonight. I am think at least five in the time we were there not including Isaac's! Kimmi loved watching them come out clapping their hands! She started doing it with them and had a big smile on her sweet face as she did so!


Then they came when they saw most of us were done eating and stood right behind Isaac. He was quiet while they sang and clapped their hands but as soon as they were done he let out this big YAY!!! It was so funny!!!! The boys pretty much devoured the ice cream, it didn't have a chance but Kimmi and I were able to get a little bit before they ate it all gone. : ) Such a fun evening.

We came home and everything was fine except the temp started dropping not a good activity. It was at 12 degrees and dropped to 0 degrees in about maybe 10 - 15 mins if that. So I just told the boys when we get home, I will unlock the door and get straight in because with the wind chill it is supposed to be -15 to 24 degrees!!!! Can you say FROST BITE!!! Not a good activity! I know we wouldn't be outside long enough for that but still that is just way cold!!! Anyway everything is great the boys are ready to go, I start to pull into the driveway and yeah....... you guessed it I got stuck!!!! I didn't shovel my driveway! It wasn't even my whole driveway that needed to be shoveled because of the blizzard it blew around and only ended up pilling up on certain parts of my driveway. So I am trying to get the car unstuck but putting it in reverse and drive, it wasn't working.


So I went outside grabbed the shovel and started to shovel away the snow my hands quickly became numb because I didn't have gloves on because my boys lost all three of my pairs of gloves! (not a good activity) Thankfully I did buy a pair tonight totally an inspiration to do so! So I tried again with the whole reverse and drive thing still nothing. This time I grabbed my gloves from the back and told the boys to sit still (so they put on a movie) I started to shovel again and while doing so hid my face in my hubbies army coat because for some reason mine is MIA! I have no idea where it could have gone too. I am sure it will show up under the boys bed somewhere or something like that, a totally random place, where it was hidden. Back to the story so I am doing that getting the snow up and I felt like I got enough this time so I went back into the car and it came to me put the van in drive 2. I am like That's Right I have that!!!!! (totally to myself) Anyway so I did and we got out of it!!!! YAY!!! Everyone cheered except Kimmi because she was fast asleep! How she could sleep through that I have no idea but thankful she did. As everyone is cheering Alma said Mom You Rock!!!! I was like wow thank you Alma and then Isaac said yeah well I said a prayer Mommy and that is why we got out!! I said you did, and he said yeah when you couldn't get the car unstuck the first time I said a prayer and I knew we wouldn't be stuck anymore! I was so grateful for the testimony that he has in prayer and that he had shown so much faith in prayer! I said okay lets say a prayer of thanks to Heavenly Father for hearing and answering our prayer!

I know this seems like such a small thing but when it is in the negatives and your freezing, trying to get your van full of children which is stuck, half in your drive way and the other half in the street, it is a big thing, not only that, what a testimony builder this was for Isaac and the other children as well as me!!! I am feeling so overwhelmed with Gratitude and Joy for this opportunity to see Isaac's faith in the power of prayer as well as to teach the other children and just gain more strength in our faith in the power of prayer. Love It!!!!! What sweet, good boys I have! I can't wait till they are priesthood holders!!!! Also it is going to be so nice to have three, young, strong boys who can push the van if we ever get stuck! hahahahahahahaha Good Times! We totally had such a spiritual night! I can't think of any better way to end our night then this way!! : )

Big Brother Lil Sister

It was super super cold outside tonight and so with that we all had our winter gear on. So I have the boys go first into the house and then I asked Malachi if he could hold Kimmi so that I could take off my boots and not have to lay her on the ground. So he took her. I took off my boots and then my bladder was calling ASAP! So I ran into the bathroom and took care of that. (Sorry if it was TMI) Anyway I walked out and said okay Malachi I am ready to take her to bed now, there was no response. I looked over and saw both Malachi and Kimmi fast asleep! Such a sweet sight to see! Totally made my night, to see the tenderness between the both of them. I didn't want to wake them, but the flash from the camera woke Malachi up and Isaac came downstairs asking for his pajamas so it was short lived, but I will cherish this for forever!